Converting every creature on the battlefield into Food artifacts, punishing board wipes, and scaling exponentially with counter placement makes Ygra, Eater of All from Bloomburrow (BLB) a terrifying Golgari commander in Magic: The Gathering.
As a 6/6 Elemental Cat costing five mana () with Ward—Sacrifice a Food, Ygra passively turns all other creatures into Food artifacts in addition to their other types. Whenever any Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Ygra gains two +1/+1 counters.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Ygra, Eater of All list, detailing how to combine sacrifice outlets, artifact destruction, Food tokens, and aristocratic drain loops to devour your pod.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Dominating with Ygra requires leveraging her static type-changing ability, running mass artifact hate that doubles as board wipes, and looping low-cost creatures for massive power accumulation.
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Early Game (Turns 1–3): Setup ramp like Sol Ring, Farseek, and deploy sacrifice-payoff engines like Experimental Confectioner, Cauldron Familiar, or Marionette Apprentice.
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Mid Game (Turns 4–5): Cast Ygra, Eater of All. Because all creatures are now Food artifacts, any creature dying (or token sacrificed) puts two +1/+1 counters on Ygra. Use sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer or Ashnod’s Altar to shrink opponent boards while pumping Ygra into lethal commander damage ranges.
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Late Game (Turns 6+): Cast devastating artifact sweeps like Bane of Progress or Fangren Marauder, which wipe all opponent creatures (since they are Food artifacts) while granting you massive life gain and leaving a gigantic Ygra to finish off surviving opponents.
2. Moxfield Highlights: Artifact Synergies & Sacrifice Loops
The top community lists on Moxfield optimize Ygra by pairing her global type transformation with artifact-specific board wipes and infinite sacrifice engines.
Bane of Progress / Fangren Marauder
Global artifact punishers. Since Ygra turns all creatures into Food artifacts, clearing artifacts destroys every creature on the board except Ygra—gaining you massive life and stacking dozens of +1/+1 counters on your commander instantly.
Experimental Confectioner + Cauldron Familiar / Peregrin Took
Food loop engines. Sacrificing Food spawns Rat tokens, which Ygra instantly turns into Food artifacts, allowing infinite sacrifice loops that grow Ygra endlessly and drain opponents.
Marionette Master / Marionette Apprentice / Disciple of the Vault
Artifact death triggers. Fires ping damage at opponents whenever any creature dies or Food token is sacrificed, rapidly draining opponent life totals.
Hardened Scales / Ozolith, the Shattered Spire / The Ozolith
Counter multiplication & insurance. Accelerates the +1/+1 counters Ygra receives from dying Food, while storing counters safely if Ygra leaves the zone.
3. Copy & Paste Ygra, Eater of All 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 Ygra, Eater of All
1 Animate Dead
1 Arcane Signet
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Bane of Progress
1 Beast Within
1 Binding the Old Gods
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Camellia, the Seedmiser
1 Cauldron Familiar
1 Culling Ritual
1 Cultivate
1 Deadly Dispute
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Disciple of the Vault
1 Environmental Sciences
1 Experimental Confectioner
1 Fangren Marauder
1 Farseek
1 Feasting Hobbit
1 Gilded Goose
1 Go for the Throat
1 Hardened Scales
1 Heroic Intervention
1 High Stride
1 Inspiring Statuary
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Marionette Apprentice
1 Marionette Master
1 Meathook Massacre
1 Nature's Lore
1 Night's Whisper
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
1 Peregrin Took
1 Phyrexian Altar
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Reanimate
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Savvy Hunter
1 Scavenger Grounds
1 Sol Ring
1 Swarmyard
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Sylvan Library
1 Tainted Wood
1 The Meathook Massacre II
1 The Ozolith
1 Three Visits
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Undergrowth Stadium
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Vein Ripper
1 Victimize
1 Viscera Seer
1 Warren Soultrader
1 Wicked Wolf
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
1 Academy Manufactor
1 Blood Artist
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Mirkwood Bats
1 Tireless Provisioner
1 Nasty End
1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
15 Swamp
15 Forest
Summary: Devour the Board, Turn Creatures into Food, Grow Supreme
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize Ygra, Eater of All because transforming all battlefield creatures into Food artifacts breaks traditional board dynamics in half. By combining global artifact destruction, high-velocity sacrifice loops, and lethal counter aggregation, Ygra stands as an insurmountable apex predator. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, consume your opponents‘ permanents, and dominate your Commander pod.
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